About This Item


  • TitleCommandant's House
  • Call NumberNEIG_2147
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 2146, NEIG 2149, NEIG 2148), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views of the Commandant's House, a large, three-story, wood-frame building with shuttered windows, second and third floor porches, and two dormer windows at top, built for Commanding Officers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1806.
  • Date1935, 1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note2146 and 2148 are identical. Date inscribed on verso of 2146: 1935; 2148: Jan. 13/35; date stamped on verso of 2147: Mar. 25, 1954; 2149: Apr. 5, 1954. Stamped on verso of 2146 and 2148: "Eagle photo;" 2147 and 2149: "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from inscription on verso of all images.
  • SubjectNew York Naval Shipyard ; Wooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.